“I hate being kept in the dark, James. More so when I know something is happening behind my back. I have been here for hours and all you are doing is keeping me in the dark.” James, with a somber expression, shakes his head. Keirah walks back past James and opens Luciano's room, rushing inside. As she gets closer to Luciano, Keirah freezes, unable to move. Fear overcrowds her as she looks at Luciano. Luciano lies in bed shivering with sweat covering all his pores. Keirah gazes at him, fear covering her body more, and she rushes over to his side to hold his hand. James joins them, rushing to them in his wheelchair. “James! He is burning hot. He is boiling and sweating too much. He is burning with a fever.” James says nothing again and pulls Keirah by force out of the room. He then locks the door to the room before turning to face the already fuming Keirah. “I don't know what is happening, but he needs to see a doctor.” “A doctor can't be of help to him now. Let him be. It's going t
*** “You would make a great father,” James speaks as Luciano lays Lana down, changing her diapers. “It is weird how I enjoy it. I love the way baby Lana looks up at me with a smile wide in her eyes. As if I am the most important person in her world.” “She does that to me, too.” James, who is no longer in a wheelchair, walks over to Luciano. “I am jealous that you and Keirah are the only ones who get to change her diapers. “Keirah has shown me how to do it and I have practiced, but I still cannot get it right.” “It's not rocket science. I was so nervous around her when she first came with you from the hospital.” “I used to see you standing aside, watching us taking care of her.” “I was nervous. She was tiny and fragile. Like she would break into pieces in seconds. When I saw you hold her, I thought I would never hold her the right way. “It was horrible when I did not know what to do when she cried. But I practiced until I felt comfortable. I think that applied to everything, inc
“That's crazy. Do I want to know what a mating process involves?” “Well, I feel embarrassed to talk about it. But it is nothing special. Mating is doing the ‘thing’.” “OOH…. OOH…. Fenrir, my man, is nasty. Well, tell him you already did the thing. Unless he wants to do it. OMG… Bestiality at its best!” “Fuck you, James.” James winces at Luciano, busting into a contagious laugh. “Is Lana asleep?” Keirah's asking about Lana cuts their conversation short and they both turn to face her. “Yes, she has been asleep for a while,” James replies to Keirah. “Dinner is ready... I am going to leave you two to it.” Keirah speaks, turning her back to walk away before she abruptly returns to face James as if remembering something. “James, are you done packing?” “Yes…. It's just you and Lana that are not ready.” Keirah chuckles at James and so does James, who keeps smiling even after Keirah continues to speak to him. “You wish!... Lana and I have been ready before you. “Anyway, is there no wa
Keirah lies unconscious on her bed in her hometown house. Wearing an oxygen tube. It is a tiny apartment compared to Luciano's penthouse or cottage. Keirah stares awake. She can hear beeping machines and distant voices. She blinks her eyes open. Dr. Fred's face comes on Keirah's eyes focus. Soft morning light filters through the window, casting a warm glow across her face. She blinks as her eyes wander into a room that does not feel like hers. They filled the room with the clinical scent of antiseptic. Keirah glances around, taking in her surroundings. The room is clean and sterile, decorated with flowers and green plants. They connect tubes and wires to her arms, monitoring her vital signs. The only thing that looks the same is the window offers her adequate sunlight and a view of a beautiful garden outside. Dr. Fred sits beside her bed, reviewing a patient's file in his hand. A fragile-looking Keirah abruptly brings her hand to her stomach, and nervously fidgets in the bed opposi
In the middle of the thick forest, which stretches as far as the eye can see, the shiny rays of sunlight penetrate the deep trees into the wet ground. Among the bushes and leaves scattered on the ground, Luciano, dressed in camouflaged gear, cautiously sleeps still on the ground. He filled his backpack with bullets, guns, and everything he needed. The high cliff is the only landing area around this thick forest that surrounds his cottage. In his one hand, he holds a string of small handheld devices he has assembled as a remote detonator. This hand stays still with no movement. With the map memorized on where he set the bombs, Luciano views the locations of each explosive through the binoculars in his other hand. He has put explosive devices strategically along the trees, hidden within the leaves and branches. He took extreme care to ensure they were all virtually indistinguishable from their surroundings. Each device is armed and connected to the detonator in his hand. Luciano's
LUCIANO'S POV One second, James is giving me the worst news in my life, and the next second, there is a knock on my head. The car at the cliff was a distraction. To take me out into the real trap. It was all a setup, and my uncle was just trying to kidnap me. Before I can fight back and try to save myself, I lose consciousness. *** After the cover, on my head is removed. I open my eyes. I am still out of place and disoriented. I am on my knees, and they tied both my legs and hands with chains from behind. This is not my uncle's way of torture. He knows me better than this. There is someone new in the picture. I gaze around the room. I search for anything that says my uncle has to do with this but nothing. I try to understand what is going on, but it proves very difficult. What is going on? Adding to my worries. I feel my head spinning. The room and everything around me are in motion. In my eyes, everything is blurred. My nose smells of blood everywhere. I want to puke my guts o
SUCRE MIGHTY! I remember my mother's words from her letter. 'Remember, the blood of the Sucre might run through you. I am hoping someone has reached out to you from my people to either try to kill you or take you back to my home.' The blue-eyed man leads me to the high table. Asking me to take a seat on the last royal chair that is not occupied, and I refuse. I am not stupid to sit at the same table with people who are working with my uncle and are trying to kill me. “Thank you for a very nice introduction. I don't care who you are or what you lead. The question remains. Why am I here? And what do you truly want from me?” “We are here to talk. Calm down.” “Calm down!? You did not find a better way to communicate with me than to team up with my uncle in trying to kill me by kidnapping me like this.” “You are the only living heir to the Sucre Mighty. Didn’t you hear what I just said?” The blue-eyed man turns to me, dumbfounded as if he expected another reaction from me. “Okay. Let'
After I tried with everything in me to bring the council members to my side and plead with them to sell my uncle out and failed. I snapped and exploded trying to kill the council members. The next thing I know. I am now locked in a dungeon. They had to take me out with the superpowers they were using to make me feel blood and test it on my mouth while making it impossible to move a muscle in my body in my head and body. They carried me out of the meeting unconscious into a dungeon. I have just gained my consciousness. And the first thing I am doing is looking for a way out. Fuck… my life circumstances are turning from bad to worse. There are only three cells in this dungeon. On the left cell to mine. The cell is empty. On the right, a tiny man is sitting by the wall hiding his face in between his lap. I walk close to my cell wall door to try opening the steel door locked from the outside. But ten centimeters from the door I feel an electric fence blocking me. Any move closer to
James quickly stands up. And his eyes travel to the doorway hoping to see his brother and there is no one there.Then his eyes travel to Maria, but Maria has not moved an inch she is lying down in the same place that she was in, and she is still hissing in pain.He runs over to help her off the ground onto a sofa beside Baby Lana’s crib. As he helps her off the floor, she is looking at him with questioning eyes wondering. ”It was not me!”“Then who is it?”“It’s me!” A weak voice from behind them makes them turn around to see Keirah holding Don Mauro’s tablet in her hands.She raises the tablet in the air for Don Mauro to see it. And she is wearing an angry weak smile but a savage one. “I made the biochips. I know a way or two to undo them. A few codes and I have sent enough shock to shut their minds out. Did you think me stupid to show you everything?”She tries to get out of bed, but it becomes hard, and Maria motions for James to help her. James puts down Maria dashing to her side
Don Mauro’s whole body is shaking with fear. That he can’t even hold the tablet in his hand anymore. And the tablet drops off his hands falling back on Keirah’s bed.He quickly takes the baby out of Dr. Patel’s hand. Readying himself to run. “You are coming with me.” He threatens Dr. Patel.As soon as Don Mauro and Dr. Patel start moving. Dr. Fred, who has been for a while standing too close to the monitor, senses something.There is a flicker of movement that appears on the monitor. A faint but unmistakable rhythm emerges on the monitor.And just like Dr. Fred, everyone, including Don Mauro, James , Erede and Dr. Patel turn their concentration and are all looking at the monitor.It then becomes so loud something that everyone, including Maria who had lost consciousness, opens her eyes wide to the monitor.The room is in silent as their eyes widen in disbelief. Keirah’s heart begins to beat once more, and her vital signs start stabilizing.Tears of joy are on Dr. Fred, but they are al
The happy celebratory noise erupts through the tablet from the werewolves at the pack and from Erede beside James. This makes James quickly to bring back his eyes to Don Mauro’s tablet screen and he joins Erede in making the happy noise after observing how happy everyone is from Luciano’s win. To James’s surprises Don Mauro is smiling too. From the look on his face, he wanted Luciano to win. As if remembering something. His face changes into a serious murderous one. As he quickly gulps in his remaining whiskey on his bottle and throws the remaining piece of cigar on the floor putting himself together as he announces to his goons. “Time to go. We are done here. Kill everyone in here....everyone including that sleeping baby in her crib. And that unconscious woman Maria too. “I don’t want anyone in here to walk out alive. And lock the room after you are done. We need to move fast. Our job here is done. “ I need to prepare myself for my coronation speech. I don’t want to have it broa
The sound of Dr. Fred stumbling backward makes Don Mauro turn his full attention to him and by the look on Dr. Fred’s face, everyone in the room can tell.That whatever Dr. Fred is going to say is not going to be good news. There is so much panic surrounding him, and his fingers still holding Keirah’s hand that he just used to check for her pulse and any sign of breathing on her nose are trembling slightly.He swallows hard with fear written all over his face as he tries to speak, “She is dead,” he whispers, his voice barely above a hoarse murmur. “Keirah is dead.”There are painful tears on everyone all over the room except Don Mauro and his goons who all look unbothered. “That is bad. You ....” Don Mauro speaks as he motions for Dr. Patel. “Get Luciano’s dead bastard out. I want to see what the fuck that thing looks like.“It had a fight in it. What a disappointment. I thought we had a future together, I thought it had the Solana genes dominating it. And giving up was not an option.
“Yes…ME! I am going to rule over everyone from now on. Not just humans, but werewolves, too. Imagine being me.” Don Mauro laughs so hard that happy tears threaten his eyes. “See….take a look.” He raises his tablet in his hands and takes it around, showing what he is watching to everyone in the room. He is smiling happily. “I have eyes in the pack. Although I can’t get in physically. I can now see everything and use my army inside the pack. One word and I can flash out the whole pack in a blink.” On the screen of the tablet, that Don Mauro is taking around. There is a live feed of Luciano fighting with another man in a combat fight. Luciano is no longer in his white porcelain skin, and he is back to the human Luciano he has always been. Covered in his original tattoos as he fights another man. Luciano is fighting with all his might and so is the other man. When Don Mauro gets closer to his son, Erede. Erede questions him. “Who is Luciano fighting? Is that the famous Water?” “No...
James struggles to see the horror unfolding in front of him. As the pack leading doctor crumples to the ground, lifeless and betrayed. And the very loud beeping noise continues to make it to all his ears. This was not his plan. The plan was to save her. James’s fight crumbles like a fragile wall battered by an unstoppable storm. He stops moving. He stops fighting. He stops everything and stands like a statue in the goon hold. As the monitors continue beeping urgently. Informing everyone that this is the end road for Keirah. Erede, on the other hand, grips his chest, tears falling out of his eyes. “NO.. KEIRAH …NO.” He watches in disbelief, his mind struggling to comprehend the nightmare before his eyes. The scene puts him in more shock, and he is frozen in place, his senses overwhelming him. But this does not affect his father. With a cold, calculating gaze, Don Mauro surveys the room, scanning one person after the other. As if daring anyone to try him again. In his eyes, everyone
Maria’s mind is already racing. As she steps out of the room, she is in an alert mood and ready for anything coming her way. Her fight instincts from her experiences in the attacks that happened in the pack are full on. By looking at the dead bodies, she has just realized that things have taken a wrong turn and that the fate that awaits her and everyone she loves is not promising. The man that shows up in front of her ready to attack her tells Maria who the culprit behind this is. This person she is fighting is not a new face to her. She knows who he is. She knows him too well. He was once a person she called her people. And his way of fighting is primitive to what she can do. She tries to go easy on him. With full knowledge, he has no control over himself, but it looks like her good heart cannot be applied now. This man and the one now already holding her mate captive. They are not going easy like her. That makes her realize it is war. Kill or get killed. Especially because sh
“I am so sorry Maria...I don't think my father will be of any help in our situation. His obsession with winning is beyond what any of us can do to make him turn a blind eye and be of help. “And he also thinks Luciano is the biggest threat there is to him. And to protect himself from Luciano. He has been doing the impossible to assure himself of that. “And I believe he has succeeded that through Keirah. He knew just like Salvatore and Luciano’s mother, there was no way Luciano would harm him if he had Keirah. “He knows Luciano would put his life online to save her. That’s how he has control. It is not only Luciano, even with me. And I see it is all of you, too. You would all do anything for her. “ By having her in this like this. He has control over us. Keirah is the key to it all. She was also the reason I fell out with him. And the reason he had a better way to control me. “His jealous son was not ready to let Keirah go. After I found out about her relationship with Luciano. I co
“What did Doom want? ”“When Doom reached out to him for the first time, he asked my father if he could help him locate Luciano. My father did not trust Doom. And he refused to help. “He did not refuse only because he did not trust Doom, but because my father also did not know where Luciano was.” “When was that?” “That was when Luciano and all of you had successfully escaped my father from Casablanca.” “That is weird. Doom lied. Everyone in the pack knew where Luciano was. Everyone in the pack had seen through my mind link about his whereabouts because I had followed him. To the forest house. Doom’s only task was to bring Luciano to the pack.” “My father thought he was lying back then, too. He had trust issues with anyone from the pack. You had disappointed him. He thought you were working for Aero. And he thought just like you, Doom was also working for Aero, too.” “Me? ....Working for Aero?” “He thought you were working for Aero because you had bombarded Casablanca. He thought